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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements - Sixth Edition

By : Robin Nichols
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Mastering Adobe Photoshop Elements - Sixth Edition

By: Robin Nichols

Overview of this book

Dive into the world of digital photo editing with this latest edition, crafted by a seasoned photographer and digital imaging expert, and harness the full potential of the latest Photoshop Elements 2024. With a unique blend of in-depth tutorials and practical applications, this book is an essential resource for photographers at all levels. Alongside introducing new features like Dark Mode, Match Color, and Photo Reels, as well as advanced techniques like layering and artistic effects, this book addresses common user feedback from previous editions, ensuring a refined and user-friendly experience. With the help of this guide, you’ll learn how to leverage AI to stitch widescreen panoramas, remove people from backgrounds, defocus backgrounds, recompose images, and even create a range of calendars and greeting cards for your friends and family. You’ll take your prowess to the next level by learning how to correct optical distortion, reshape images, exploit layers, layer masking, and get to grips with sharpening techniques to create the perfect picture or imaginative fantasy illustration. The online realms of animation, video creation, and third-party plugins will also be covered. By the end of this book, you'll know how to leverage the incredible features of Photoshop Elements 2024 with complete confidence.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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My contrast looks 'greyish', what's wrong?

A lack of contrast (i.e. no deep black or bright whites) usually produces flat-looking, lacklustre images. This is usually fixed quite easily with a simple contrast boost.

Low contrast photos are more common that those that are too dark. It's usually caused when the light meter 'overreacts' to the scene brightness. In this picture, taken at a local wildlife park, the slightly darker than average scene forced the meter to over-expose, and that's why the koala looks paler than he really was. Here, Auto Contrast (Quick/Advanced Edit>Enhance>Auto Contrast) provided an instant fix, leaving a near perfect result. And a happier looking koala!

Here are some other 'instant' contrast fixes that are well worth trying out:

  • Quick/Advanced Edit > Enhance > Lighting > Levels. Start by trying the Auto button to improve the tone. If that doesn't work...